Bethel Church Brings Water Cheap Gas Jam to Orphans Abroad / Life 1 85-Cent Fuel Snarls Traffic in Centralia / Main 3 $1 Weekend Edition Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Ryderwood History Bringing the Fight Senior Living Community Looks Ahead as It Napavine-Area Firefighters Travel Across Prepares to Celebrate Centennial / Main 6 Washington to Assist at Blazes / Main 4 Watching and Waiting Residents React to Approaching Alder Lake Fire By Dameon Pesanti emergency vehicles zoom up the except for a half dozen places
[email protected] normally quiet road. where gray columns of smoke “At times, you never know reach into the sky. The scent MINERAL — On Friday what’s going on,” he said. “We’ve of burning wood lingers in the afternoon, Tim Milbrath is sit- had little fires before, but noth- air. Pleasant Valley Road resi- ting in a lawnchair outside of his ing this intense.” dents say their cars are covered Pete Caster /
[email protected] house on Pleasant Valley Road From the valley floor, the with ash every morning. Several People look out the window of a Jeep as it drives past U.S. Forest Service employ- and watching the smoke billow mountainside is surprisingly ees helping people with information concerning the Alder Lake Fire near Elbe on up from the Alder Lake Fire as close and looks like it’s steaming, please see FIRE, page Main 11 Friday afternoon. GET YOUR GARLIC Festival Favorite Hits Southwest Washington Fairgrounds Ageless Voices Converge on Morton for Sacred Harp Singing Event PUBLIC INVITED TO TWO DAYS OF TUNES: Earliest American Songs Come Alive Today and Sunday in East Lewis County; No Musical Experience Necessary By Brian Mittge For The Chronicle The eyes and enthusiastic voices of Amer- ica are centered on Morton this weekend as an international annual sing-along event happens today and Sunday at the Tiller Art Center in Morton.